Pfitzner’s Palestrina: The ‘Musical Legend’ and its Background

Preface by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Extent: 310 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrations ~ Bibliography ~ Discography ~ List of Works ~ Index
Illustrations: 23 b/w; 89 music exx.

George Enescu: His Life and Music

Preface by Sir Yehudi Menuhin
Extent: 320 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ List of Works ~ List of Recordings ~ Index
(Out of print, but available for printing on demand)

Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin: Thoughts on their Interpretation

With a Preface by The Amadeus Quartet, a Postscript by Günter Ludwig, and an Appendix by Paul Rolland Translated by Horace and Anna Rosenberg
Extent: 219 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ Bibliography ~ Index

The Music of Franz Schmidt: Volume 1: The Orchestral Music

With Personal Recollections by Hans Keller and the Autobiographical Sketch by Franz Schmidt
Extent: 190 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ Bibliography ~ Index

Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth

Forward by Vernon Handley
Extent: 204 pages
position: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ List of Works ~ List of Songs Collected ~ Bibliography ~ Index
Illustrations: 26 b/w; 47 music exx.

Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician – Two Volume Revised Edition Set

Volume 1: 1891–1939
Volume 2: 1939–1952; Appendices 1–12
Includes two CDs: Busch the Performer; Busch the Composer
Extent: 1432 pages
Composition: Royal octavo, 2 vols of 702 & 730 pp.
255 b/w illus.

Ernst Krenek: Piano Music, Volume One

This first extended survey of the piano music of Ernst Krenek (1900–91) opens with his Fourth Sonata of 1948, which revisits the graceful elegance of the First Viennese School in the style of the Second. It continues with the witty George Washington Variations and the first recording of a brief Prelude written for the Swiss patron of music, Werner Reinhart, and concludes with Krenek’s completed version of Schubert’s unfinished Piano Sonata in C major, d840.

Stanislav Khristenko, piano

Percy Sherwood: Complete Works for Cello and Piano

The Anglo-German composer Percy Sherwood, born in 1866, seems to have slipped through the cracks of history, although he has an impressive output of orchestral, chamber, choral and instrumental music to his credit. He was once an important figure in his native Dresden, where he owned an imposing villa, but after moving to Britain at the beginning of the First World War he faded from view and by the time of his death in London in 1939 his music was as good as forgotten. This first CD in a series of Sherwood recordings — the first-ever dedicated to his music — reveals a major lost Romantic, with a style that is both lyrical and passionate.

Joseph Spooner, cello
David Owen Norris, piano

Vissarion Shebalin: Orchestral Music, Volume One

Like his close friend and colleague Dmitry Shostakovich, Vissarion Shebalin (1902-63) knew a life of both celebrity and hardship: he was another of the composers condemned in the infamous 1948 Party congress in Moscow, and in later life he fought to overcome a series of crippling strokes. But his personality remained undaunted, as his music resolutely proves. This is the first recording of his First Suite for Orchestra and the first appearance on CD of the Second, both of them prepared from theatre music, and showing the lighter side of Shebalin's symphonic music. They have been recorded by the orchestra of his home town, Omsk, the capital of Siberia.

Siberian Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
Dmitry Vasilyev, conductor

Georg Philipp Telemann: Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, Volume One

This is the first CD in the first complete recording of the 72 cantatas from Georg Philipp Telemann’s collection Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, published in Hamburg in 1726 – the first complete set of cantatas for the liturgical year to be published. The cantatas are designated for voice, an obbligato instrument (recorder, violin, transverse flute or oboe) and basso continuo, and take the form of two da capo arias with an intervening recitative. Although intended for worship, both public and private, Telemann’s cantatas are a masterly blend of tunefulness with skilled counterpoint and vocal and instrumental virtuosity.

Bergen Barokk

Joonas Kokkonen: Requiem; Complete Works for Organ

The music of Joonas Kokkonen (1921–96), one of the most important Finnish composers after Sibelius, radiates warmth and light. His limited output is largely introvert in character but also contains moments of grandeur and rhythmic energy. Kokkonen’s Requiem (1980–81), written in memory of his first wife, is both a powerful choral symphony and a tender, moving embodiment of consolation. Originally scored for large orchestra, the Requiem is heard here in a new version for organ intended to bring the work within the reach of smaller forces. This first recording is complemented by the first complete recording of Kokkonen’s four works for solo organ.

Suvi Väyrynen, soprano Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8-11
Joose Vähäsöyrinki, baritone Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8-11
Klemetti Institute Chamber Choir Tracks 3-11
Jan Lehtola, organ of Paavalinkirkko, Helsinki
Heikki Liimola, conductor Tracks 3-11

The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins: Volume One: The Fantasias for Viols

Extent: 359 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrations ~ Discography ~ Bibliography ~ Index
Illustrations: 9 b/w; 148 music exx.

SVETIK: A Family Memoir of Sviatoslav Richter

Walter Moskalew, Anna Moskalewa-Richter and Dagmar von Reincke
Foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Introduction by Bruno Monsaingeon
Translated and edited by Anthony Phillips

Extent: 462 pages
Size: 16 x 24 cm
Published: October 2015
Illustrations: c. 30 colour illustrations; c. 250 b/w illustrations

The Villa-Lobos Letters

Translated and Edited by Lisa M. Peppercorn
With a Reminiscence of Villa-Lobos by Ralph Gustafson
Extent: 212 pages
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ Chronology ~ Bibliography
Illustrations: 40 b/w

Meinrad Schütter

Maverick Swiss Composer

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by Ute Stoecklin
Translation by Chris Walton

188 Pages
23.3 x 15.5 cm
16 colour and 33 b/w illus
Hardcover

Performing Wagner

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A Singer’s Perspective on the Major Tenor Roles

by Stephen Gould and F. Peter Phillips

Foreword – Katharina Wagner
Introduction – F. Peter Phillips
154 Pages
Hardcover
23.4 x 15.6 cm
25 colour and 22 b/w illustrations